none 10.5325/pennhistory.90.3.0349 The Pennsylvania State University Press The Pennsylvania State University Press 3287 152390059 94985 2023082005553940600 10.5325 2026-06-17T10:40:21Z 2023-08-20T01:55:47Z 0 Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 0031-4528 2153-2109 2023 07 13 2023 90 3 David J. Endres Mount St. Mary’s Seminary and School of Theology, The Athenaeum of Ohio ABSTRACT For at least five generations, the Elder family held enslaved persons as part of their agricultural, commercial, and domestic pursuits in Maryland, Kentucky, and Louisiana. Though scholars have highlighted slaveholding by US religious orders, especially the Jesuits, little attention has been paid to how lay Catholics bought, sold, and treated their bondspeople. This study explores how the Elder family was connected to slavery, including the intergenerational transfer of human property—and the practices and mentality that sustained it. 2023 07 13 2023 349 379 10.5325/pennhistory.90.3.0349 https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/pa-history/article/90/3/349/381404/The-Elder-Family-Intergenerational-Slaveholding-in https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/pa-history/article-pdf/90/3/349/1998171/pennhistory_90_3_349.pdf https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/pa-history/article-pdf/90/3/349/1998171/pennhistory_90_3_349.pdf https://muse.jhu.edu/article/905347